Clark set to inaugurate $10M radars

CLARK International Airport Corp. (CIAC) is set to inaugurate this month two state-of- the-art radars for the Diosdado Macapagal International Airport (DMIA) amounting to $10 million.

President Arroyo will be the guest of honor for the inauguration of the radars, tentatively scheduled after Lent.

Victor Jose Luciano, CIAC president and CEO, said the radars, which use electromagnetic waves, can identify the range, altitude, direction, or speed of aircraft as far as Manila to Laguna from Clark.

The equipment were bought from Alenia Marconi Systems (AMS), a major European integrated defense electronics company and an equal shares joint venture between BAE Systems and Finmeccanica until its dissolution on May 3, 2005. The Italian operations of AMS became SELEX Sistemi Integrati.